The Washington critic., 1887-07-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The funeral OF Mrs. Sadie Fulton Chan.
frau, wife OF II 7. Chanfrau, the actor, took
place In Pltteburg yesterday.
The bill taxing winc.rooms $4,000 passed
the Georgia House yesterday. It's thought
| that the Senate will pass 1t also.
The steam yacht Meteor, from Prluce
| Edward Island, with General W. T. Sherman
atd party on board, arrived at Quebec
| yesterday.
The winning horses al Brighton Beach yes.
terday were Lottie Fillmore, Widgeon, Tat
| tier, sutler, Pink Cottage, Epicuro and Peg
| Wellington.
Senators Vest, Plumb, Allison, Farwell
| and Cameron left Helena, Mont, last night
for Alaska. Ex-Governor Hauscr accom-
panied them.
| II. II. Whitmeyer OF Uniouville, Lancas-
ter County, Pa, was held 10 $500 bail yester-
day for trial on the charge OF selling un-
stamped cigars.
Editors, bank officers and the Board OF
Health OF Memphis unite In denying that
| yellow fever exists there, as has been re-
| ported In New York.
| In New York yesterday Wm. II. Laden,
aged 30, fatally shot himself, after attempt
Ing to kill his wife and her mother. Both
were badly wounded.
| Andrew Williams aud Robert West were
killed and Robert Williams fatally injured
near Terre IIaute Ind, Tuesday, by a tree
falling on their buggy as they were return
ing from funeral.
A mortgage of Sl0,OO0,000, executed In
favor Of the Mercantile Trust Company of
New York by tho Pittsburg aud Western
Railroad Company, was recorded at New
Castle, Pa, Tuesday.
| United States Senator Chandler states he
never wrote or inspired the letter recently
| attributed to him In which he was reDre
seDted as fayoTing Blaine and Shernan on
the Republican Presidential ticket.
State Treasurer William Herbert OF Della
ware and family, six persons in all, were
made nlaimingly III Tuesday by drinking
butternilk which Is supposed to have been
impure, but all were better yesterday.
The schedule OF assignment, filed In New
York yesterday by James Edwards aud
Frank l.. Anthony, dealers in coffee, to
Thomas j. Barr, show liabilities as Sl+7,0O0;
nominal assets, $4,000; actual assets,
$4,000.
Ufel Crocker, the oldest publisher In
New England, died at his residence, in
Cohasset, Mass, Tuesday. For nearly
three.quarters OF a century Mr.. Crocker, as
senior member OF the firm of Crocker e
Brewster, was identified with book. making
In Boston. lie was 81 years old.
a west-bound freight train on the Penn
sylvania Railroad was thrown from the
track at Gordonyille, Pa, yesterday, by
spreading rails. Thirteen cars were de-
rallied aud number were badly broken up.
Conductor Smoker and three brakemen, all
OF Columbia, Pa, were badly bruised by
jumping.
Brigg Swift's old pork house in Clncin.
natl, recently remodeled for manufacturing
purposes, was burned yesterday, involving
loss OF S150,O00. The losers were: Gooch
Freezer Company, $4,000; Briggs Swift
$4,000; White Star Laundry, S25, ,0O0 Wrig.
ley Bros, $4,000. The three hundred EN-
ployes in the building escaped.
The liabilities OF the Hurlbut Paper Com.
pany OF South Lee, Mass, are estimated at
100000 and assets are estimated not Ia
exceed 2s cents on the dollar. In 1875 the
Hurlbuts mortgaged their mill property tc
Alfred d. Jessup Of Philadelphia for $l2O,.
OO0, and again in 1873 for $4,000. These
mortgages were not recorded until Tues.
day, and 1t ls thought will not hold.
Four people were shot at Clinton, Iowa,
during the Wild West performance OF Sells
Bros.' Circus, Tuesday night. George Har.
rington, aged II, was shot fatally; Mrs w
A. Lambertson, dangerously; Wallace
Phillips, aged lG, seriously. One Of the In
dams was also shot. The shooting was
done during the encounter of the cowboys
and Indians in the ring.
Beach Hawley, aged nine years, son Of
Edgar Hawley OF Brookfeld, Conn, con
slant reader Of light literature, left his homt
Wednesday morning with the intention o.
going to Africa. He took with him an old
fashioned horse pistol, a quantity of powde
and ball, and his bank-book. He went Il
Newtown, drew SEQ from the bank, ant
while waiting for the train went out in
field to practice with his pistol. While hi
was looking at the weapon 1t was accl
dentally discharged, and he was probabl.
fatally wounded.
James d. Belt ,of Hardin County, III.
while riding along the road on horseback oil
Sunday, was shot and killed by some un
known person. He was the half-brother o
Logan Belt, who was killed In the sam
manner, and near the same place, on tn
evening of June Z. Logan Belt was maj
Of wealth, but a notorlou. character, ant
the leader of faction in Hardin Count
somewhat similar to that existing in two o
three Kentucky counties, the opposing fac
tion being known as the Oldham party.